by Lodi Growers | May 24, 2021 | Blog
MONDAY, MAY 24, 2021. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. Growing seasons have a rhythm-based on grapevine growth and development. Those of us in the winegrape business are well aware of this cadence because our work lives are tied to it. Much less obvious is the...
by Lodi Growers | May 10, 2021 | Blog
MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. What is happening out in Lodi vineyards today, during the merry, merry month of May? Pretty much the same as in most of California’s vaunted wine regions, since vineyard growth patterns in Lodi mirror all but the most...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 29, 2021 | Blog
MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2020. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. The old saying, a picture is worth a thousand words, certainly applies to damaged grapevine foliage. Still, describing foliage damage with words is often necessary for vineyard managers to communicate with crop...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 22, 2021 | Blog
MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2021. BY KAI TAWA, WESTERN WEATHER GROUP. [written on March 11, 2021] Drought is ongoing in the area. Using records from Sacramento and Stockton, we can determine that the Lodi Area is running at about 55% of normal rainfall. Let’s go into some...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 8, 2021 | Blog
MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2021. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. What’s In a (Varietal) Name? The term varietal, as the long-departed wine scribe Robert Lawrence Balzer wrote way back in 1948 in his book California’s Best Wines, is actually “an early California...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog
MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2021. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. Growers of annual crops have it comparatively easy. If things don’t work out well one season, in the next season they have an entirely new set of plants and a new opportunity to optimize production. In contrast,...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 22, 2021 | Blog
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2021. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. “This holiday [Presidents’ Day] weekend has been super-busy!” proclaimed Frankie Arburua III, the sole proprietor of Lodi’s F Ewe Sheep Company. Arburua is far from the first sheep rancher in Lodi,...
